DEAL: Amazon Echo Drops to $90 Today ($90 Off), Echo Dot to $35

Oh boy, if you have been wanting an Amazon Echo or need an additional unit for another room in your house, today is your day. Best Buy is hosting a 1-day sale on Amazon products that dropped the Amazon Echo to just $89.99. That’s a $90 discount and matches the lowest price ever from Prime Day. In other words, this is your second chance at the best Amazon Echo deal in history.

If you don’t want the regular Amazon Echo, Best Buy also has the Echo Dot with a $15 discount to $34.99. You could shoot for the Amazon Tap too, which is just $79.99 today ($50 off). There are other Amazon products discounted today too at Best Buy, including Fire tablets and Kindle products. We’ve got links for you below.

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Have both the Echo since it launched and now several Google Homes. IMO, the GH has already surpassed the Echo.

I suspect since the Echo was first it is inertia versus reality why there is push back on this fact from time to time.
Just the foundation of the two are very different.

The Echo takes the sounds of your voice and turns it into words that are then used as commands.

The GH takes the sound of your voice and turns into words but then has an additional layer of intelligence that it knows who is who and also understands what the words mean and gets concepts that then trigger actions.

This is why you do NOT have a manual with the GH with commands you memorize as you do with the Echo.

In our home it is why I believe the GH is integrated and the Echo was always my toy. I was motivated to learn the commands and memorize and then use the Echo and my family just was not as motivated to do so.

Daniel Richardson

I am trying to find a way to convince myself to buy the echo dot… I just think if I purchase the device it will just sit there and collect dust after the initial cool factor of something new wears off..

mcdonsco

If you have smart devices (light switches etc) then you’ll use it, comes in really handy. If not, likely won’t use it, especially the dot since it’s speaker isn’t very good at all. The regular one at least also makes for a good Bluetooth or just on command speaker.

Daniel Richardson

i don’t have any smart home devices.. thanks for helping me from wasting $35! 🙂

mcdonsco

Remember though, fantastic on command or Bluetooth speaker. Sounds great for the money.

Sarahdpayne

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tu3218

Really wish Google would release a competitor to the Amazon Dot. I want one for my bedroom and basement but don’t want to spend another $130. Cmon Google!

Jack Smith

Have now purchased several Google Home and only the first couple did I pay $130. Since I have been picking up for under $100. Just have to watch deals.

Did pay list for our Echo as was in the invited group in late 2014. But never purchased another as just could not get my family to really engage in using it and it remained my toy.

Amazon must really be feeling the heat with these big Echo discounts.

mcdonsco

Thanks for the heads up guys! Picked up 8 (limit 4, but seems to be per order not per customer as it let me do it twice).

Tempted to stock up more, especially at this price, but worried Amazon will release a new version before I run out of my current stock of them.

droidrazredge

Which models of the Amazon Assistants did you buy? What type of smart device(s) & brand(s) do you currently have? What type of setup configuration have you done at your home? I just wanted to see what setups other people have done as I’m making an autonomous setup to control the lights, thermostat, and various other devices in the home.

PKells

My two cents: Amazon Echo/Dot by itself will get boring quickly. Having the devices that have supported Amazon skills is where it gets cool though. I’ve currently got an Echo in the kitchen and dots in other rooms of the house all tied into Hue lights, WeMo lights, Harmony Elite, Roomba, and AC. Had a bunch of the “smart” devices already and finally added Amazon Alexa on the recent prime day.
I’d say Alexa works 95% of the time doing what I want it to, and with Spotify account tie in and Audible tie in I am really enjoying it.

Being able to say “Alexa, tell Rosie to clean house” and Roomba gets going, or “Alexa, turn on party time” and the TV turns on, Hue lights change color, music starts playing, and receiver volume turns up” is pretty damn cool.

mcdonsco

I have smartthings and have learned the hard way that the security devices on smartthings are worthless (motion sensors, open sensors etc). But lights, light switches, harmony integration etc is fantastic; flawless for the most part. The security related stuff constantly drops out, low battery, out of range (even though initially it was fine) etc. Will be adding an ADT system to the house and using smarthtings only for controlling lights, harmony, garage door etc.

We only have / use one echo in the main room. We have a dot in the bedroom but rarely use it and I keep a Google home on hand, but by comparison it is completely useless so it rarely gets used.

Jack Smith

I find Google home actually far more functional than the echo for everyday use if you look above I gave just a few examples of Everyday Use where the Google home can do something and the echo cannot.

I have many many more real life examples.

mcdonsco

I don’t doubt at all that ultimately Google home can be more functional than an echo. But in practical use for me when I’m across the room and I say “hey Google, lights out” and nothing happens or it has no idea what to do or only recognizes part of what I say and thus doesn’t do what I asked, I find it lacking.

Yet, the echo recognizes it and executes it every time without fail.

To me that makes the echo for more useful.

Ultimately I think it is a failure of the hardware not the software. I think Google made a huge mistake going with only a few mic’s on the Google home where as the echo nailed it with 7 mics that have no trouble understanding a command from across the room at a regular speaking volume.

The whole point of these is not to have to be near them and not to have to yell at them to get them to do what you want them to do. With Google home, I have to yell at it or be very close to it or it will not work. With the echo I can be across the room and just say it as though I’m talking to somebody next to me and it will do it every time.

Additionally, I have received the response of “I’m sorry I can’t do that yet or I don’t know how to do that yet” many times over more often from the Google home than I do from the echo.

Jack Smith

Wow! I was hoping for something real and now have to call BS on your dissing the Google Home. Is this Jeff? Do not get me wrong I am a HUGE fan of Amazon. But I am also someone that can be honest and you either have a bad unit or not being honest. I have a large family as in 8 kids and our Google Homes are used all day long.

If you were honestly confused if it understood you or not you would simply check if it did. But the problem is it does not sound like you actually have a Google Home.

I give REAL examples as I own both and have owned the Echo since the preview in late 2014. You have NOT provided anything that is believable.

BTW, I am NOT someone that takes calling out someone for being untruthful offline or online lightly.

You will get this price pretty easily now I suspect. Amazon is really feeling the heat from the Google Home. Ultimately we will have one personal assistant from phone to home to car and everywhere in between and Amazon not having a mobile presence it will be difficult for them long term, IMO.

I was sitting in my garage last night with a storm coming up and sitting in the dark watching it with my kids. But time to go in and just say to my watch “hey google turn on garage” and we get the lights for the kids to see to walk inside safely.

Or on my long run and getting close to home and without missing a stride tell my watch to turn down the AC. Or a big one is when I get ideas while running or cycling and just tell my watch to remember something and able to get what I remembered on any of my other devices.

This is the future. Amazon has a great presence in the home but that is just one piece of the puzzle. We will ultimately have our assistant to use everywhere. We are so early with this stuff but ultimately Amazon without mobile or car or wearables or, well you get the idea, is in a weak position. The number of Alexa users is tiny compared to the Maps, Search, Photos, Android, etc users.

mcdonsco

Depends on the person I guess. I don’t use Google Assistant much outside of information retrieval, reminders etc.

I probably should use it more on my watch, but at this point it’s pretty rare. Walking around Charleston the other day though checking out historical sites was pretty nice though “hey Google, navigate to city jail by foot” then just following the directions on my watch without touching my phone was nice.

I use AA in the car for these things as well. But for turning down the ac, opening the garage door etc I use geofencing in smart things for that along with my ecobee. I say nothing, it just does it.

Jack Smith

Had the Echo since launched and now several Google Home and the GH I find for everyday use far more functional.

Many examples where the echo falls down. Some quick examples. Daughter interested in going to Murray State have no idea where it’s located hey Google how far to drive to Murray State and get an answer nada from the echo.

11th Hour kid comes upstairs after telling me all morning game is home but no it is a way hey Google how long to drive to X High School get answer nothing from the echo.

But probably the biggest example is photos. Click your iPhone shutter button don’t touch additional button anywhere later walk into your family room and ask for very fine details in photos and a photo appears on the TV in 4k and HDR without touching a single button.

Another big example where the echo falls down is the Google home knows me from my wife from my kids and gives each of us our own music versus echo has commands to switch accounts.

Another is controlling who can do what in the house with the Google home it knows voices and does it for ID versus the echo has passcodes which really suck in 2017.

I can give so many other examples. But the biggest weakness is the Echo has commands that you have to memorize and then use versus Google home you just talk to it naturally. This cause the echo never to be integrated into our home and always my toy versus the Google home everyones uses.

Right after the one love concert finished my younger son came downstairs going on and on about the concert when he suddenly just turns and says hey Google Play The One Love concert peas and it starts playing not possible with the echo.

Working on a DIY project in my daughter’s room when she’s going on and on about Ed Sheeran’s performance at the Grammys tonight before and then she says Hey Google Play Sheeran Grammys and it starts playing.

The echo can’t do that just a couple examples I have so many more. Real life examples where the Google home can do functionality that the echo just cannot do.